Cyberplagiarism in University Regulations
Santiago Cavanillas
(s.cavanillas@uib.es)
Professor of Civil Law at the University of the Balearic Islands
Abstract
The article examines the legal framework for plagiarism, and its twofold nature of illicit appropriation (from the author of the plagiarized work) and fraud (with regard to the target audience of the plagiarism). Based on these premises, academic cyberplagiarism is analysed as a form of plagiarism carried out using electronic tools in the university setting. The question of responsibility (who can regulate the legal consequences of plagiarism?) before and after the Ley Orgánica de Universidades (organic law on universities, LOU) is studied, as is the disciplinary handling of cyberplagiarism with the limited regulations currently in place at universities.
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Submission date:
September 2008
Accepted in:
November 2008
Published in:
December 2008
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